The Nagas

Archer W.G. Chingai Hamne Yuong Chingsha Yangang of Wakching 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 Wakching Hungphoi (Hongpoi) Wangla Chonu Anphang (Angpong) 13:5 letters notes Next letter from Chingai, head dobashi Wakching, concerning guns Archer W.G. Previous 80 letter from Chingai, head dobashi Wakching, ..
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Hutton Mills J.P. Furer-Haimendorf Christoph 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 Kuthurr Yimtsong-Awenrr (Yimchungr Anrr) Cheshorr Huchirr Ayepongr Sangrupu (Satrupu) Helipong Saramati Mt. 16:1 notes Next Yimchungr Nagas Archer W.G. Previous Yimchungr 80 Yimchungr Nagas notes Hutton Mills J.P. Furer-Haimendorf ..
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1946-01-01:1948-12-31 6:3 Chimongre law of homicide among Sangtam Nagas notes Sangtam Chang Yimchungr Ao Lhota Sema Chimongre 1947-11-03:1947-11-03 Archer W.G. 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 6:3 The law of homicide among the Sangtam Nagas. On 3rd November 1947, two boys from the Sangtam village of Chimongre..
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1946-01-01:1948-12-31 6:5 Tuensang Pangsha Shamnyu Chingmei use of mithan as a fine notes Tuensang Pangsha Shamnyu Chingmei 1947-11-01:1947-11-31 Archer W.G. 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 6:5 The role of mithan in Naga society. These [] were widely illustrate in November 1947 when I was camping at Tuensang..
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Hutton Adams P.F. 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 Chare Chongliemdi (Chongliyemdi) Longsa Ungma Lungkam (Lungkham) Langyok Phire-Ahire (Phire Ahire) 6:6 notes Next birthplace of the Ao Archer W.G. Previous Ao Sangtam 80 birthplace of the Ao notes Hutton Adams P.F. Ao Sangtam Chare Chongliemdi (Chongliyemdi) ..
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1946-01-01:1948-12-31 6:8 Mongnyu Sowa Dikhu R. inter-village feuding notes Mongnyu Sowa Dikhu R. 1947-06-01:1947-06-31 1947-11-01:1947-11-31 Archer W.G. 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 6:8 Drift to anarchy. 1. Mongnyu - Sowa Had sworn in June 1947 not to go to war. In Nov. 1947 Sowa made a new morung - ..
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Mills J.P. Archer W.G. 1946-01-01:1948-12-31 10:5 letters notes Next letters from Mills to Archer Archer's tour to Chang country & failure of 'Hills Week' in Shillong Archer W.G. Previous Chang 80 letters from Mills to Archer Archer's tour to Chang country & failure of 'Hills Week' in ..
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Sankalemba Chuba Akong Mong Auhukhyu Zehovi Hopongki 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tuensang preparations for a tour to Tuensang diaries Sankalemba Chuba Akong Mong Auhukhyu Zehovi Hopongki Tuensang 1947-11-02:1947-11-02 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 2 November. Mokokchung. Today final preparations ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tuensang preparations for a tour to Tuensang plans for a new Sub-division at Tuensang diaries Yimchungr Chang Sangtam Tuensang 1947-11-02:1947-11-02 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 For many months now the plan for a new subdivision at Tuensang has been developing. Under ..
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Zopianga 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tuensang preparations for a tour to Tuensang new district officers diaries Zopianga Tuensang 1947-11-02:1947-11-02 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 It had also been hoped that the new S.D.O. could be appointed and that he could come on this tour and discuss plans ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tuensang preparations for a tour to Tuensang diaries Tuensang 1947-11-02:1947-11-02 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 It is clear that this tour cannot set the new subdivision in motion. But the presence of the S.D.O. with an escort in the 'control area' may show the more ..
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Mayang 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tuensang preparations for a tour to Tuensang diaries Mayang Tuensang 1947-11-03:1947-11-03 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 3 November. Mokokchung. Mayang came in this afternoon to wish us a pleasant tour. As usual the conversation soon took a political turn and he ..
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Mayang Sailo Capt. Kevichusa 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Mayang's views on Pawsey's successor diaries Mayang Sailo Capt. Kevichusa 1947-11-03:1947-11-03 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Mayang also enquired about this Lushai officer, Captain Sailo, and the rumour that he is to be the next D.C. 'I ..
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Mayang 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Mayang's reasons for Naga dislike of plainsmen diaries Mayang 1947-11-03:1947-11-03 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 I asked Mayang why such bitter feelings had grown up against the plainsman, as it is obvious that they are not merely due to the recent war contacts ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Mokokchung Tuensang Dikhu R. leaving Mokokchung for Tuensang diaries Mokokchung Tuensang Dikhu R. 1947-11-04:1947-11-04 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 4 November. Chare. Since we were last out on tour the season has changed; the cold weather has come and the rains are ..
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Hutton Dr 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 the frontier diaries Hutton Dr 1947-11-04:1947-11-04 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 The first part of the march lay down to the Dikhu river. When Dr. Hutton went along this same track to Tuensang in 1923 at the very same time of the year, this formed the ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Chare Dikhu R. visit to Chare diaries Chare Dikhu R. 1947-11-04:1947-11-04 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 All the way to Chare the bridle path had been freshly cleared, weeds hoed and the undergrowth on either side cut back. Every year at this time when the rains are ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Chare Pangsha visit to Chare log drum diaries Chare Pangsha 1947-11-04:1947-11-04 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 The log drum was close by. On the side of its shed was a panel carved with hornbills, human heads, the sun and moon, a dao and a digging tool - a shorthand ..
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Chuba 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Chare Lungtrok visit to Chare proposed visit to Lungtrok diaries Chuba Chare Lungtrok 1947-11-04:1947-11-04 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 The evening passed in talking to headmen and villagers. Bill suggested that the next morning, before setting off on our march,..
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Zokutov 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Chare visit to Chare packing on tour diaries Zokutov Chare 1947-11-06:1947-11-06 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 6 November. Phire-ahire. We did not hurry off this morning and I sat by the hut watching the packing. It amazes me that our possessions arrive each day..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Chare visit to Chare school diaries Chare 1947-11-06:1947-11-06 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Before setting out on the march we visited the Upper Primary and Lower Primary Schools at Chare. The Sangtams like the Changs have no readers in their own language although a ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Phire-Ahire visit to Phire-Ahire diaries Sangtam Phire-Ahire 1947-11-06:1947-11-06 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 All today we halted at Phire-ahire, a Sangtam village, counted it and inspected the school. We played musical arms with the children accompanying the game on..
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Chambesi of Phire-Ahire 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Phire-Ahire visit to Phire-Ahire Chambesi's house diaries Chambesi of Phire-Ahire Sangtam Phire-Ahire 1947-11-06:1947-11-06 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 We visited the house of Chambesi, a young interpreter with a pretty wife. He had a fine ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Phire-Ahire visit to Phire-Ahire pets diaries Sangtam Phire-Ahire 1947-11-06:1947-11-06 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 The Sangtams seem particularly fond of animals and every house was full of hens with their broods, cats, dogs and new-born pups. The dogs are kept for ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Phire-Ahire visit to Phire-Ahire Y posts diaries Sangtam Phire-Ahire 1947-11-06:1947-11-06 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Outside the houses were Y posts, the record of Feasts of Merit. They were higher with longer arms than the Ao posts. Next R67252 R67252 Previous ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Phire-Ahire visit to Phire-Ahire Sangtam women diaries Sangtam Phire-Ahire 1947-11-06:1947-11-06 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 The Sangtam women looked most attractive with their smooth hair held by shining grass fillets. Many of them were wearing cloth puttees which ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Phire-Ahire visit to Phire-Ahire diaries Sangtam Phire-Ahire 1947-11-06:1947-11-06 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Great hills surround the camp. Yongimti stands out, an isolated cone, and its exposed summit explains the mist and wind we encountered there. This evening as..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Holongba Sangsomo (Sangsoma) to Anangba via Holongba and Sangsoma; village hospitality diaries Holongba Sangsomo (Sangsoma) 1947-11-07:1947-11-07 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 7 November. Anangba. We spent the whole morning covering the six miles to Anangba as in both ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Sangsomo (Sangsoma) headman at Sangsoma diaries Sangsomo (Sangsoma) 1947-11-07:1947-11-07 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 At Sangsoma the headman was a vivid figure in scarlet, black and white. He wore great elephant-tusk bracelets, shell and boars' tusk necklaces. He had..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.) view over the Tizu River diaries Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.) 1947-11-07:1947-11-07 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 The road today lay up and down rocky humpy hills overlooking the Tizu river and the rolling heights of the Sema land. To the east rose a ..
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Churungchu of Anangba Hutton 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Anangba headmen of Anangba diaries Churungchu of Anangba Hutton Anangba 1947-11-07:1947-11-07 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 At last we reached a hilltop where two brothers, the headmen of Anangba, were waiting with their friends, scarlet ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Anangba camp on the site of a war-time American outpost at Anangba diaries Anangba 1947-11-07:1947-11-07 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 After drinking rice-beer these two headmen accompanied us to the camp which is on a site used by an American outpost during the war. ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Anangba Chimongre girls from Chimongre diaries Anangba Chimongre 1947-11-07:1947-11-07 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 A huge crowd was waiting at the camp - mainly to look at me, the interpreters said. Some girls from Chimongre, a village eight miles away which Bill had ..
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Churungchu Hutton Pawsey 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Anangba toffee at Churungchu's house diaries Churungchu Hutton Pawsey Anangba 1947-11-07:1947-11-07 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 This evening we went to Churungchu's house where he gave us the same kind of toffee made with honey and maize flour..
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Churungchu Pukovi Hutton Chuba 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Anangba Chongtore head-hunting memories diaries Churungchu Pukovi Hutton Chuba Anangba Chongtore 1947-11-07:1947-11-07 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Here we are in a different world from Mokokchung. Politics has given place to head-hunting..
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Churungchu 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Anangba Churungchu, a were-leopard diaries Churungchu Anangba 1947-11-07:1947-11-07 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Then Churungchu dreamily told us how he is a were-leopard. There are a number of leopard and tiger man amongst the Nagas. Churungchu's leopard ..
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Chuba 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Anangba Chongtore girls dancing at Anangba diaries Chuba Anangba Chongtore 1947-11-08:1947-11-08 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 8 November. Anangba. Everyone has had a miserable night. After midnight the cold seeped in through the bedclothes and although we piled ..
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Churungchu 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Anangba warriors' dance at Anangba diaries Churungchu Anangba 1947-11-08:1947-11-08 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 As they were finishing, there was a bloodcurdling cry, the cat-call of the successful warrior returning with a head. It is a cry that sends ..
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Sankalemba Imlong 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Anangba camp at Anangba diaries Sankalemba Imlong Anangba 1947-11-08:1947-11-08 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 After the dancing everyone lay round on the ground in the sun drinking rice-beer, chatting and staring. The camp is big news, all the ..
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Chuba 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.) the frontier diaries Chuba Chang Yimchungr Kalyo Kengyu Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.) 1947-11-09:1947-11-09 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 9 November. Chingmiren. The exciting part of the tour has now begun. By 4.30 am the camp was stirring and I ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Helipong visit to Helipong diaries Helipong 1947-11-09:1947-11-09 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 At last we emerged on to a rocky windy hilltop where a Chang headman and his Yimchungr wife were waiting with rice-beer. nagaarchphotP48753.jpg The headman led us to his ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Chingmiren Chamyung R. visit to Chingmiren diaries Chingmiren Chamyung R. 1947-11-09:1947-11-09 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Reluctantly we left the village and dropped steeply down the hillside to the Chamyung river, a small stream flowing through a great boulder-..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Chingmiren visit to Chingmiren granaries diaries Chingmiren 1947-11-09:1947-11-09 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 On our way to the camp I noticed the Chang granaries, mounted on piles with a circular wooden disk at the top 'To keep away the rats', we were told. These ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Chingmiren visit to Chingmiren camp diaries Chingmiren 1947-11-09:1947-11-09 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Crowds of villagers with presents of pigs, fowls and eggs were waiting in the camp and again Bill explained to them that they were now to be administered. No one ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Chingmiren visit to Chingmiren poverty in the Trans-frontier region diaries Chingmiren 1947-11-10:1947-11-10 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 10 November. Tuensang. Before leaving Chingmiren this morning, the headmen were (139) insistent that we should visit their houses. ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Chingmiren Holongba Sangsomo (Sangsoma) visit to Chingmiren drum houses in disrepair diaries Chingmiren Holongba Sangsomo (Sangsoma) 1947-11-10:1947-11-10 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 As in Holongba and Sangsoma, the drum houses had fallen into disrepair. It looks as ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tuensang Chingmiren Helipong Pangsha march to Tuensang diaries Tuensang Chingmiren Helipong Pangsha 1947-11-10:1947-11-10 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 The march to Tuensang was a gentle eight miles through fields and forest dappled with sunshine like an English wood. ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tuensang camp at Tuensang diaries Tuensang 1947-11-10:1947-11-10 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 As we emerged from the woods, we saw Tuensang sprawling over the hills below, a huge village. In a field I could see its twelve headmen, great toughs with cane helmets, ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tuensang camp at Tuensang Pangsha's fine of mithan diaries Tuensang 1947-11-10:1947-11-10 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Under the trees in front of the camp were ten large mithan peacefully grazing. Bill smiled with relief; Pangsha had paid its fine. nagaarchphotP48772...
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tuensang Pangsha camp at Tuensang explaining about the new Sub-division at Tuensang diaries Tuensang Pangsha 1947-11-10:1947-11-10 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 All the afternoon I have felt like an animal at the zoo. We sit in front of the hut and the crowd presses ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tuensang camp at Tuensang diaries Tuensang 1947-11-10:1947-11-10 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 During the afternoon a large mithan was brought by the Chang tribal council and slaughtered. It has been carefully divided out between the whole camp and we have got the tail ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tuensang Chingmei camp at Tuensang diaries Tuensang Chingmei 1947-11-11:1947-11-11 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 11 November. Tuensang. Every day brings its fresh excitements. Today the villagers of Chingmei, a Chang village bordering on the Kalyo Kengyu country, came ..
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Yakching 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tuensang camp at Tuensang Phom carvings diaries Yakching Phom Tuensang 1947-11-11:1947-11-11 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Amongst the visitors was Yakching, the Phom woodcarver who has been making chungas for Bill. He had brought us two beautiful tankards ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tuensang camp at Tuensang warriors' parade diaries Tuensang 1947-11-11:1947-11-11 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 When the salaams were finished and rum and red cloth had been given to the headmen, the crowd formed a great circle. Men climbed trees, babies were mounted on..
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Tongpong of Chingmei Chingmak of Chingmei Bundo of Chingmei Hutton Mills 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tuensang camp at Tuensang warriors' dance diaries Tongpong of Chingmei Chingmak of Chingmei Bundo of Chingmei Hutton Mills Tuensang 1947-11-11:1947-11-11 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 The parade ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tuensang camp at Tuensang fire at Tuensang diaries Tuensang 1947-11-11:1947-11-11 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 At midday when the dancing was about to end, there was a sudden cry of 'Fire'. The whole crowd stampeded and we saw an ugly column of brown smoke rising from ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tuensang camp at Tuensang house counting diaries Tuensang 1947-11-11:1947-11-11 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 In the afternoon we walked through Tuensang counting the houses and visiting the headmen. It is an enormous village of 560 houses. It is divided into four clans..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tuensang camp at Tuensang Chang houses diaries Tuensang 1947-11-11:1947-11-11 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 The Chang houses are quite different from those of other tribes. They have sharply sloping roofs with great porches that project like the prow of a ship. They are..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tuensang camp at Tuensang morungs diaries Tuensang 1947-11-11:1947-11-11 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 The morungs like the houses have high sloping roofs and wooden hornbills, fish and chains of bamboo rings dangle from the eaves. The Chang morungs are not used for ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tuensang camp at Tuensang head hunting diaries Tuensang 1947-11-11:1947-11-11 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Now we are over the frontier head-hunting is bound up with every aspect of life; dancing, song, village architecture, personal ornaments and dress. It is a ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tuensang camp at Tuensang burnt-out houses diaries Tuensang 1947-11-11:1947-11-11 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 As we returned from the village and passed the site of the fire, a few men were putting up leaf camps for the night and a few women and children were ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tuensang camp at Tuensang attitude of Gurkhas to Indians diaries Tuensang 1947-11-11:1947-11-11 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 This evening the Gurkha subahdar came into our hut for a drink and the talk gradually came round to politics. The Gurkha attitude seems very ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tuensang site of the new Sub-division diaries Tuensang 1947-11-12:1947-11-12 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 12 November. Tuensang. Today everyone has enjoyed a day's leisure. The porters and sepoys have washed their clothes, bathed, scoured their cooking pots and lounged..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tuensang men and women dancing at Tuensang diaries Tuensang 1947-11-13:1947-11-13 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 13 November. Tuensang. This morning we again visited the village and watched two of the clans dancing. Both men and women were dancing together. nagaarchphot..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tuensang presentation of daos diaries Tuensang 1947-11-13:1947-11-13 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 In the evening the presentation daos were divided out between the interpreters, porters and sepoys. I had no idea it was such a serious business. Edges were thumbed, the ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 tour in Yimchungr country diaries Yimchungr 1947-11-14:1947-11-14 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 14 November. Kuthurr. Yesterday we left the Chang country and entered the Yimchungr land by narrow field and jungle paths along a ridge running parallel to the Helipong range..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Kuthurr tour in Yimchungr country visit to Kuthurr diaries Yimchungr Kuthurr 1947-11-14:1947-11-14 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Once again there was a great assembly of Kalyo-Kengyu, Chang and Yimchungr villagers, waiting for us in our camp at Kuthurr, all of whom had ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 tour in Yimchungr country women's dress diaries Yimchungr 1947-11-14:1947-11-14 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 The women have peculiar way of doing their hair. They knot their tail of hair into a loop at the back, then bend it up, and tuck the knot in so that the loop ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Longtrok tour in Yimchungr country diaries Yimchungr Longtrok 1947-11-14:1947-11-14 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Throughout the last two days clouds have been gathering on the hilltops and today a storm came blustering up. I am relieved we did not go to Longtrok, the ..
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Aokukyu 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 tour in Yimchungr country diaries Aokukyu Yimchungr 1947-11-15:1947-11-15 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 15 November. Yimchungr Anr. After yesterday's rain the night was bitterly cold, but we woke to a serene cloudless morning. The furthest hills seemed only a ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Yimtsong-Awenrr (Yimchungr Anr) visit to Yimchungr Anr diaries Yimchungr Yimtsong-Awenrr (Yimchungr Anr) 1947-11-15:1947-11-15 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 The headmen of Yimchungr Anr were waiting where the path left the river bed and rose steeply to the village. One ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Yimtsong-Awenrr (Yimchungr Anr) Chashirr (Chashir) Cheshorr visit to Yimchungr Anr quarrel between Chashir and Cheshorr diaries Yimchungr Yimtsong-Awenrr (Yimchungr Anr) Chashirr (Chashir) Cheshorr 1947-11-15:1947-11-15 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 The afternoon has ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Yimtsong-Awenrr (Yimchungr Anr) visit to Yimchungr Anr effect of the war in the unadministered area diaries Yimchungr Yimtsong-Awenrr (Yimchungr Anr) 1947-11-15:1947-11-15 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 This evening as we sat round the fire the interpreters remarked on ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Yimtsong-Awenrr (Yimchungr Anr) Tsawlaw visit to Yimchungr Anr strength of Naga tribes in Burma diaries Yimchungr Yimtsong-Awenrr (Yimchungr Anr) Tsawlaw 1947-11-15:1947-11-15 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 There is much talk too of the strength of the tribes on the ..
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Aohukyu of Cheshorr 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Cheshorr visit to Cheshorr diaries Aohukyu of Cheshorr Yimchungr Cheshorr 1947-11-18:1947-11-18 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 18 November. Cheshorr. Here we are in the heart of the Yimchungr country, in the biggest Yimchungr village. This is ..
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Mukam of Cheshorr 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Cheshorr visit to Cheshorr headmen diaries Mukam of Cheshorr Yimchungr Cheshorr 1947-11-18:1947-11-18 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 The Cheshorr headmen are fine figures, both over six feet tall. Aohukyu's father is an aristocratic, sensitive man with ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Cheshorr visit to Cheshorr dance and dress diaries Yimchungr Cheshorr 1947-11-18:1947-11-18 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 The village danced for us this afternoon. nagaarchphotP48878.jpg nagaarchphotP48879.jpg nagaarchphotP48882.jpg nagaarchphotP48883.jpg nagaarchphot..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Cheshorr visit to Cheshorr jhuming diaries Yimchungr Cheshorr 1947-11-18:1947-11-18 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Although we are amongst small villages and in a wild part of the Naga Hills, the forest between Tuensang and Cheshorr has been almost entirely cleared by ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Cheshorr Yimtsong-Awenrr (Yimchungr Anr) Tuensang visit to Cheshorr lack of log drums through lack of timber diaries Yimchungr Cheshorr Yimtsong-Awenrr (Yimchungr Anr) Tuensang 1947-11-18:1947-11-18 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 There were no log-drums in either ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Cheshorr visit to Cheshorr camp at Cheshorr diaries Yimchungr Cheshorr 1947-11-18:1947-11-18 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 The villagers of Cheshorr have built us an excellent camp. Our hut must be about sixty feet long with great wooden posts supporting the roof. It is..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tita R. Zungki R. (Zungkhi R.) Nantaleik R. (Ti-ho R.) Huchirr Sangrupu tour in Yimchungr country diaries Yimchungr Tita R. Zungki R. (Zungkhi R.) Nantaleik R. (Ti-ho R.) Huchirr Sangrupu 1947-11-20:1947-11-20 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 20 November. Sangrupu. Today ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Ayepongr tour in Yimchungr country diaries Yimchungr Ayepongr 1947-11-20:1947-11-20 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Bill went on to Ayepongr, a village which had never been visited by a European. It was a small Yimchungr village and he found nothing there of great ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Huchirr Sangrupu tour in Yimchungr country visit to Huchirr and Sangrupu diaries Yimchungr Huchirr Sangrupu 1947-11-20:1947-11-20 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 When he returned we visited Huchirr and Sangrupu which had never seen a European since before the first Great ..
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Kahutu senior 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 tour in Yimchungr country diaries Kahutu senior Yimchungr 1947-11-20:1947-11-20 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 The elder Kahutu, the chief Sema interpreter, has just joined the camp and tomorrow we shall leave the 'control area' and enter the Sema country. ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Litsimi Tita R. Zungki R. (Zungkhi R.) visit to Litsimi diaries Sema Litsimi Tita R. Zungki R. (Zungkhi R.) 1947-11-21:1947-11-21 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 21 November. Litsimi. After a showery night with rain dripping through the grass roof on to the beds we ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Litsimi Helipong visit to Litsimi diaries Sema Litsimi Helipong 1947-11-21:1947-11-21 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 We climbed straight up from the camp over a mountain ridge to Litsimi on the far side. The hill was a continuation of the Helipong range and was just over..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Litsimi Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.) visit to Litsimi diaries Sema Litsimi Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.) 1947-11-21:1947-11-21 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Once over the ridge, the familiar Tizu valley lay below us and the hills of the Sema and Ao country. We have now left behind ..
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Hevetu 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Litsimi visit to Litsimi camp at Litsimi a fight diaries Hevetu Sema Litsimi 1947-11-21:1947-11-21 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 The camp is in a small hollow in the woods amongst alders hanging with yellow catkins. Our hut has bamboo house-horns and an archway ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Litsimi visit to Litsimi Sema songs diaries Sema Litsimi 1947-11-21:1947-11-21 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 After dark some of the villagers came to sing their old Sema songs. A fire was lit and we all crouched round it. Six men sat in two groups with their arms round ..
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Hevetu 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 visit to Litsimi rice-pounding songs diaries Hevetu Sema 1947-11-22:1947-11-22 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Sema rice-pounding song 22 November. Tizu camp. As the next camp was only five miles away we spent the morning in Litsimi village and did not move on ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.) Tizu camp diaries Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.) 1947-11-22:1947-11-22 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 After a luscious meal of pork, beans and sweet potatoes, we set off for the next camp dropping steeply down to the Tizu river. The hillsides were strewn ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.) Tizu camp diaries Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.) 1947-11-23:1947-11-23 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 23 November. Tizu camp. It has been a brilliantly sunny day and everyone has lounged about resting on the grass. The porters and sepoys have bathed in the..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.) Aichisagami (Aichasagami) Tizu camp Baptist Mission Convention; the Hopa diaries Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.) Aichisagami (Aichasagami) 1947-11-23:1947-11-23 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 All day a stream of villagers has been coming down the hill from ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.) Tizu camp fishing with hand-grenades diaries Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.) 1947-11-23:1947-11-23 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 In the afternoon the subahdar and his Gurkhas decided to go fishing with a hand-grenade. All the porters streamed along behind ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.) Tizu camp Naga swimming diaries Nantaleik R. (Tizu R.) 1947-11-23:1947-11-23 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 The Nagas swim with an odd dog-paddle stroke, both hands moving together. The rest of the coolies formed a line lower down the stream and ..
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Shoizhu 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 to Aichasagami; Hopa meeting hall diaries Shoizhu 1947-11-24:1947-11-24 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 24 November. Aichasagami. We are back again on the ordinary bridle path and halting the night in a rest house. After weeks of grass huts, the matted floors and ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Aichisagami (Aichasagami) Hopa meeting hall at Aichasagami diaries Aichisagami (Aichasagami) 1947-11-24:1947-11-24 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 In Aichasagami we saw the Hopa meeting hall, a great bamboo and palm-leaf hut with two shining crosses made from bamboo ..
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Pawsey Mayang Aliba Subong 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Zunheboto (Zenibotto) dilemma of the Naga flag and future government diaries Pawsey Mayang Aliba Subong Zunheboto (Zenibotto) 1947-11-24:1947-11-24 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 With the bridle path we have returned to politics. Sema ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Naga People's Day, 21st November diaries 1947-11-25:1947-11-25 1947-11-21:1947-11-21 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 25 November. Longsa. Here Ao interpreters were waiting with more political news. November 21st was 'Naga Peoples Day' and was declared a holiday. In ..
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Aliba Nehru Hydari 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 refusal by Governor of Assam to meet NNC delegation until they withdraw their ultimatum diaries Aliba Nehru Hydari 1947-11-25:1947-11-25 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 There was also the news that Aliba had gone with one or two other N.N.C. members to ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Phomching (Phomchung) Pongu (Pongnyu) Mongnyu Shamnyu head-taking in the Phom country diaries Phom Phomching (Phomchung) Pongu (Pongnyu) Mongnyu Shamnyu 1947-11-25:1947-11-25 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 News had also come that a Phom of Phomchung has killed a man from..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 feast to celebrate the end of the Tuensang tour diaries 1947-11-25:1947-11-25 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 Tonight after dark we had a feast to celebrate the end of the tour. Porters, sepoys, servants and ourselves all sat out under the moon round a huge wood fire ..
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1947-07-09:1947-12-04 leaving the Naga Hills diaries 1947-11-30:1947-11-30 Archer Mildred 1947-07-09:1947-12-04 30 November. Chongliyimsen. After four days hectic packing, we set off today on the long tramp down to the plains and the railway on my way back to England. Although the change from the ..
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